Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-06-09
John sherman,s Keynote.

John Sherman's Keynote.
Pittsburg Dispatch: Senator Sher-
man carefully explained to the Legisla-
ture of Illinois, yesterday, the Demo-
cratic party is wrong in everything and
the Republican party is right in every
thing. Senator Sherman has been
making this explanation at regular in
tervals for the past twenty years, and
there were indications at the last Presi-
Dental election that the people had
come to regard in the light Of n chestnut.
Louisville Courier. Journal: Two
thirds of his address is devoted to the
issues of the past. Reading that por-
ton one would think it was 1867 in
stead of 1887, and having relieved him
self of his bitterness, by expression, MIR.
Sherman, who fondly hopes to be Mr..
Cleveland's successor, come to the dis
eussion of the issues of to-day. r
Chicago Times: Weare thus given to
understand that the unfulfilled mission
of the Republican party is to maintain
the system of licensed rapine, or to
make people rich by mercilessly taxing
them, and to spend the surplus revenue
for pensions to people never injured in
the public service, in schooling projects,
in logrolling river and harbor jobs,
and in subsidies for the pretended pur-
pose of building up a commerce that
the party has been trying with much
success to destroy. This is, in the main,
the substance of the programme offered
by Mr.. Sherman as his bid for the
Presidency. .,..
New York Herald: John Sherman
had worked up quite promising little
Presidential boom previous to his inva-
sion of Illinois yesterday. He had some
sensible and generous words concerning
the South. He had "thawed out" his
cold personality, and had even ventur-
ed to speak of the great Democratic
party, comprising at the last general
election more than half the voters in
the country, as though it were not made
up of public enemies.
But the little boom is burst. The
censure of the bloody shirt swingers for
his kindly utterances at the South
proved too much for him.. And yester-
day at Springfield Mr.. Sherman fell in
to his old habits again. No man can be
nominated for President, much less
elected, who treats the rebellion as still
rampant, speaks of the Democratic par
ty as ''the left wing of the new confed-
crate army' and advocates the perpetu.
alton of the war taxes. -.....-.-
Poor Sherman. He has exhibited his
Bourbonism and his demagogy to no
purpose. Mr.. Blaine will now 60
abroad more convinced than ever that
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Philadelphia Record: Senator Sher-
man addressed the Illinois Legislature
yesterday. He no longer sings the same
tune with which he charmed the people
of the South. He yesterday unfolded
the bloody shirt and waved it for all it
was worth. His idea of disloyalty is
now embodied in the fact of being op-
posed to a high tariff; and he insists
that such opposition is confederate
idea" wickedly put forth to tear the
nation into pieces.
New York Hedrld: Ex-senator Sher.
man desires to rehabilitate Mason and
| Dixon's line, which was obliterated by
the victory of fAppomattox, and if he
proposes to go to the country on that
plank of the republican platform he
will find, we think, that the political
Jordan is hard road to travel. The
people of this country are engaged in
looking forward, not in looking back
ward. They have no crick in the neck
which twists the head around to the
past. The days of sectional hatred are
gone by forever and he serves his
country poorly who cannot see that the
United States reaches down to the Gulf
The Democratic party is the party OF
the whole. The Jacobin party is still
loading up imaginary artillery and
firing at earthworks long since desert
ed. 1t must do it or die. Therefore il
nails the bloody shirt to the masthead
and with the cry of 'On to Richmondo'
hopes to capture the White House.
1t will not do, gentlemen.
Philadelphia Times: 1t is unfortu-
nate that man of Senator Sherman's
character and ability should keep his
face turned to the past and insist that
the great party Of which he is so promi-
nent leader shall content itself with
the promulgation of ideas that nobody
is disposed to dispute at this time
The bloody shirt patriots will throw up
their hats with delight and declare
that Senator Sherman is very Demos
themes in his denunciation of the
wicked confederates and all their do
ings. Judicious Republicans will only
grieve to find that while the South has
been reconstructed for years the Ohio
Senator has not yet found it out.